Sugar High

Candy is in Roxanne Klein's blood. And we're not talking
about the sugar high from her sweetly sour concoction, dubbed Sandy
Candy (a cross between Pixie Sticks and sand art). Klein comes from
a candy-minded family, and she's known sweet innovation from
birth. After all, Roxanne's father, David, invented the Jelly
Belly candy. He and her mother, Rebecca, helped Roxanne get Sandy
Candy off the ground when the now 22-year-old dreamed up the idea
in high school, agreeing to develop the candy in their Covina,
California, factory. That certainly made it easier to get the sweet
stuff made-freeing Roxanne of the typical start-up and equipment
costs. Says Roxanne, "I come up with ideas every day, and we
don't have the equipment to make them all...so this was a good
one."

Does Roxanne feel any added pressure, being the daughter of a
successful inventor? "No," she says, "[we're
all] individuals. I just go with my own flow. My Roxy
flow."

That Roxy flow is bringing Sandy Candy to the masses.
Manufactured under the Klein family's Can You Imagine That!
Inc. name, Sandy Candy is sold on the Internet at www.candycraft.com and through
independent distributors. For about $1,000, people buy the product,
book an event and sell away.

Grossing about $1.5 million in 1999, Roxanne hopes to double
sales this year. Her main goal? "For Sandy Candy to be
everywhere."